Great Falls tribune., 1887-02-19

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be made for breakfast the next morning.
We sat up later than usual that night
engaged in various small occupations, OF
listening to narratives from Henry. Pii-
ing on the pitch pine il the lire place till
the flames darted far above the top Of the
chimney. We took little heed of the
passing hour, or the intense cold with
out
The morning following | staid in camp
thinking | had about all the meat | could
readily pack out OF the mountains and
doubling, too, whether or no would have
more success. But John and Henry went
out early and along in the afternoon look
ing out, what should | see but John com
ing down the hill above the house drag
ging two deer behind him. He said lie
| had shot them on his return not far from
camp, and being down hill all the way,
had got them in without much trouble.
Later Henry arrived. He had struck
Johns trail some distance back, seen where
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news to tell him, nor had he any for u.s.
Long before the morrow's sun appeared
above the mountains, John and | started
out to bring in the deer buried in the snow
We left our guns behind, taking only some
| light rope and reached the place before
noon, finding everything undisturbed.
| The bodies were soon uncovered, ropes
| TIED about the necks of the larger, the
smaller ones fastened on behind and we
started back, each dragging two OF them
| Instead of going over the hills as we came
| we make for the nearest point on the
| stream that flows past camp. That once
reached. we follow down on the ice read
lily enough, and reach camp in good sea
son. The next two days are spent by
John and myself in making trip out of
the mountains. Wepack four of the deer,
various hides and the head of a fine noun
tain sheep, killed earlier in the season out
with us.
On the afternoon of the second day, get
ting back rather early, we find Henry
away, nor does he return till two or three
hours after dark. We begin to fear some
accident has hap - but at last In he
comes with be- L mustache so cover
ed with ic .s,,. that it is some time
before he car pen his mouth to speak
readily. When sufficiently thawed out he
tells US that he has found game at last,
and after supper relates the days adven-
lures, first bringing into the cabin a big
timber wolf with three bullet holes through
its body as part of the spoils. Quite early
in the morning when about two miles from
camp he had suddenly run into four deer
still lying in their beds of the previous
night under fallen pine. The deer lost
no time in attempting to get away, nor did
Henry in gazing. His first shot wounded
one in the shoulder causing it to leave the
others. The remaining three ran straight
down slight ravine and before they were
out of sight he had killed them all. Quick
ly disposing of these he took after the
wounded deer which he followed nearly |
all day. It made circle and along about
dark the trail was leading toward camp |
and not more than a mile away, when
passing over slight raise he came sud
denly on the mangled remains Of the ami
NAL with a wolf crouching alongside. |
Taken by surprise, the latter growled and |
showed signs of fight, then turned tail and |
ran, but not far, for Henry fired three
times at it in rapid succession, every shot
taking effect and the last one rolling the
beast over in the snow.
On the morrow we went out and brought |
back the game and in the afternoon made
preparations to desert camp the day fol |
lowing. All things considered we had no
reason to be disappointed in the result of /
our few days hunting, for the game was
rapidly disappearing over the whole coun-
try, and moreover the difficulties OF get |
ting about, owing to the snow, were unu-
sually great.
r. S. w.